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Kenya: Financing Climate-Change Fight

The head of the International Monetary Fund proposed a plan for the world’s governments to pool together to raise money needed to adapt to climate change. (original story)

Panel Will Review U.N. Climate Work

The review aims to help the U.N. climate change panel avoid the kinds of errors that have brought its work into question in recent months, officials said Wednesday. (original story)

Seeking Transformational Energy Technologies

[ This special issue podcast is longer than the usual 60 seconds. ]Last week, the new Advanced Research Projects Agency for energy held its inaugural conference in Washington, D.C.--a direct response to a growing sense that the U.S. is losing its technology lead when it comes to the race... (original story)

Climate Goal Is Supported by China and India

The countries are the last two major economic powers to agree with the aims of the nonbinding agreement. (original story)

Fish Fry: How Will a Warming World Impact U.S. Trout Populations?

Dear EarthTalk: A fisherman friend of mine told me that trout populations in the interior West of the U.S. are already shrinking due to global warming. Is this true? And what is the long term prognosis for the trout? --Jon Klein, Portsmouth, N.H. [More] (original story)

Maldives Ban Fishing of Sharks

The Maldives will make its territorial waters into a shark sanctuary, a government official said Tuesday. (original story)

Auto-dicted: Sans a Major Diversion of U.S. Transportation Dollars to Mass Transit, Urban Traffic Congestion May Not Ease

Dear EarthTalk: Short of massive efforts to build a public transportation infrastructure, which doesn’t appear likely anytime soon, what is being done to address traffic congestion, which is reaching absurd levels almost everywhere? --John Daniels, Baltimore [More] (original story)

China and India Join Climate Accord

The countries are the last two major economies to join the agreement reached in December, which calls for limiting the rise in global temperatures. (original story)

A Theory Set in Stone: An Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs, After All

Although any T. Rex –enthralled kid will tell you that a gigantic asteroid wiped the dinosaurs off the planet, scientists have always regarded this impact theory as a hypothesis subject to revision based on further evidence gathered from around the globe. Other possible causes, such as vo... (original story)

Wal-Mart Unveils Plan to Make Supply Chain Greener

Wal-Mart says it will cut 20 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions from its supply chain by 2015. (original story)




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